TripAdvisor Reviews Hotel Golmaheem Gangtok

Travel Blogs from Gangtok

... again meant to have views of the mountains, but only got a slight view when woken up by aerobics with music played through the stadium speaker system at 6am!!! J-Lo at 6am isn't the best start. Anyway that only happened twice, the other times we had the army drilling, perhaps practicing with the worst bagpipers I think I have heard, all carried perfectly from the stadium to our window! All part of the fun. Anyway we were up at the monastery and were ...

There were several factors that contributed to our decision to include a visit to Dajeeling in our two-week stay in East Nepal: firstly the proximity was such that as the crow flies we were only 30 or 40km away; secondly Darjeeling is a bit of a traveller's Mecca, and it would seem silly to pass up the opportunity when we were so close; thirdly it was unlikely that we would be returning to this part of the world any time in the near future; fourthly it was a welcome break ...

... he was describing – the people who would transport us across India – they weren’t even his relatives at all! In fact, it was quite possible he had never met them.

"Maybe you are paying meals for Uncle and Uncle Daughter?” In Pema’s mind, we had already agreed to\welcome his uncle’s-daughter-who-wasn’t -actually-his-cousin into the van and it was time to move on to the next strategy to separate us from our money.

... to people houses that you could pat the dog or take the washing off the line on the way. In most places, I could walk faster. At one time I looked out the window and could not see any road just the sheer drop down the never ending valley, not my favourite sight.

The flowers here are similar to ours but the Begonias grow to enormous flowers that resemble roses. There are also Salvia, Camelias, and Snapdragons in pots. ...

... night, or not as the case was, then on to Indulge bar, where there was karaoke. We were the only non-locals there, and had the only women, too. When the girls got up to sing the locals turned the machine off - apparently it was men only. We got the owner to turn it back on for the girls to sing. Sat 17th Emily, Jennie, Kristy, Sarah and myself went by jeep upto Tsongo (pronounced Changu) Lake. The road was mainly very poor, but is being widened with ...